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Exploring Animals, Glossopedia Style
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It’s the first day of the “Animals” unit for Tami Brester’s third-grade class and the first day her students are using Glossopedia, a free online multimedia science encyclopedia. But you wouldn’t know that from…
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Every science major has prerequisites: algebra, calculus, general chemistry, or introductory physics. As faculty, we understand the importance of these foundation courses. After all, we establish these prerequisites or…
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The Tree of Animal Life activity is a simple, sorting exercise that can help them see a bigger picture. The activity sets the stage for learning about animal taxonomy and introduces the characteristics of various animal…
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Creating a Fair Classroom Environment
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Reduce your students’ first day jitters by implementing these specific classroom management suggestions that are designed to reduce student anxiety and create a fair environment. These strategies will effectively help…
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Senior geography students in Field Methods in Geography apply their classroom knowledge to address an aspect of water quality degradation in a nearby river. Students submit proposals, carry out fieldwork, and write…
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Scope on Safety: (Lack of) safety in numbers?
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What is the safe number of students for one teacher to teach? Like many issues in education, there is no one-size-fits-all answer. There are several factors that need to be considered when establishing the safe number…
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Environmental Education Saves the Day
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At the start of each school year at Oil City Elementary Magnet School in Oil City, Louisiana, eager students ask, “What’s our theme this year?” This curiosity comes from their expectations that they will study a…
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Case Study: In Case You Are Interested—Results of a Survey of Case Study Teachers
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Case study teaching had a long tradition in law and business before it made the jump to medical school education in the form of Problem-Based Learning (PBL) in the 1970s. Today, both the University of Delaware’s…
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Studying the Olympic sport of curling is a fun, engaging way to learn about the concepts of friction, forces, momentum, and Newton's laws. Students enjoy and benefit from hands-on, experiential learning activities, and…
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Personal Response Systems and Learning: It Is the Pedagogy That Matters, Not the Technology
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This study investigated whether using clickers in conjunction with lecture tutorials yields higher student learning gains than using only lecture tutorials. The results suggest that the clickers do not lead to…
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As teachers make the transition to inquiry-centered science, they discover a need for new assessments. In response to this need, a group of 125 elementary teachers embarked on a three-year investigation of science…
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Point of View: Students, Butterflies, and Cancer
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This article accounts one research scientist's interest in butterflies and his aversion to dealing with cancer with it hitting so close to home. Prefering to emphasize problem-solving skills rather than recall, this…
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Point of View: Sharing Pedagogical Techniques as a Mechanism for Interdisciplinary Contact
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This column shares reflections or thoughtful opinions on issues of broad interest to the community. This month’s issue discusses interdisciplinary collaboration among teachers.
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The Science Teacher’s editor shares thoughts on the current issue.
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The world’s population is increasing at a phenomenal rate. One of the resources this growing population relies on now, and will rely on more as nonrenewable resources are used up, is wood. Currently, wood is used for…
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